Slabbed vs Scabbed - What's the difference?
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(slab)
(archaic) Mud, sludge.
* 1664 , ,
A large, flat piece of solid material; a solid object that is large and flat.
* 1859 , John Lang, Botany Bay, or, True Tales of Early Australia ,
* 1913 , , 2008,
* 2010 , Ryan Humphreys, The Flirtations of Dan Harris ,
A paving stone; a flagstone.
(Australia) A carton containing twenty-four cans of beer.
* 2001 , , Gallipoli ,
* 2008 , Diem Vo, Family Life , Alice Pung (editor),
* 2010 , Holly Smith, Perth, Western Australia & the Outback , Hunter Publishing,
* 2009 , Ross Fitzgerald, Trevor Jordan, Under the Influence: A History of Alcohol in Australia , 2011,
An outside piece taken from a log or timber when sawing it into boards, planks, etc.
A bird, the wryneck.
(nautical) The slack part of a sail.
(slang) A large, luxury pre-1980 General Motors vehicle, particularly a Buick, Oldsmobile or Cadillac.
(surfing) A very large wave.
* 2009 , Bruce Boal, The Surfing Yearbook , SurfersVillage,
* 2011 , Douglas Booth, Surfing: The Ultimate Guide ,
(computing) A sequence of 12 adjacent bits, serving as a byte in some computers.
To make something into a slab.
thick; viscous
* Shakespeare
(Southern US, slang) A car that has been modified with equipment such as loudspeakers, lights, special paint, hydraulics, and any other accessories that add to the style of the vehicle.
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* 2012 , Bobby Austin, By All Mean$ , AuthorHouse (2012), ISBN 9781468542943,
(scab)
An incrustation over a sore, wound, vesicle, or pustule, formed during healing.
(colloquial, or, obsolete) The scabies.
The mange, especially when it appears on sheep.
* 1882 , James Edwin Thorold Rogers, A History of Agriculture and Prices in England , Volume 4, p. 306,
Any of several different diseases of potatoes producing pits and other damage on their surface, caused by streptomyces bacteria (but formerly believed to be caused by a fungus).
Common scab, a relatively harmless variety of scab (potato disease) caused by .
(botany) Any one of various more or less destructive fungal diseases that attack cultivated plants, forming dark-colored crustlike spots.
(founding) A slight irregular protuberance which defaces the surface of a casting, caused by the breaking away of a part of the mold.
A mean, dirty, paltry fellow.
(slang) A worker who acts against trade union policies, especially a strikebreaker.
To become covered by a scab or scabs.
To form into scabs and be shed, as damaged or diseased skin.
* 1734 , Royal Society of London, The Philosophical Transactions (1719 - 1733) Abridged , Volume 7,
* 2009 , Linda Wisdom, Wicked By Any Other Name ,
* 2009 , Nancy Lord, Rock, Water, Wild: An Alaskan Life ,
To remove part of a surface (from).
* 1891 , Canadian Senate, Select Committee on Railways, Telegraphs and Harbours: Proceedings and Evidence ,
To act as a strikebreaker.
(transitive, UK, Australia, NZ, informal) To beg (for), to cadge or bum.
* 2004 , Niven Govinden, We are the New Romantics , Bloomsbury Publishing, UK,
* 2006 , Linda Jaivin, The Infernal Optimist , 2010, HarperCollins Australia,
* 2010 , Fiona Wood, Six Impossible Things ,
As verbs the difference between slabbed and scabbed
is that slabbed is (slab) while scabbed is (scab).slabbed
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Verb
(head)Anagrams
*slab
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(wikipedia slab)Etymology 1
From (etyl) sclabbe, slabbe, of origin.Noun
(en noun)Sylva, Or A Discourse of Forest Trees, Volume 1,
- Some do also plant oziers in their eights, like quick-sets, thick, and (near the water) keep them not more than half a foot above ground; but then they must be diligently cleansed from moss, slab , and ouze, and frequently prun'd (especially the smaller spires) to form single shoots;.
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- There were no windows in the inn. They were not required, since the interstices between the slabs suffered the wind, the rain, and the light of day to penetrate simultaneously.
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- Then there was the Mexican who sold big slabs of chewing taffy for five cents each.
page 73,
- “The pier? You mean those few sodden logs tied together and that dingy slab of rough concrete.”
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- The Australians murder a few slabs of beer and the New Zealanders murder a few vowels.
page 156,
- However, unlike in Ramsay Street, there were never any cups of tea or bickies served. Instead, each family unit came armed with a slab of beer.
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- Common 375-ml cans are called tinnies, and can be bought in 24-can slabs for discounted prices.
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- One essential part of the strategy for selling regionally identified beers beyond their borders was the selling of slabs — a package of four six-packs of stubbies or cans — for discounted prices interstate.
page 31,
- After being towed into a massive slab , Dorian dropped down the face and caught a rail, putting him in a near-impossible situation.
page 95,
- In August 2000 he successfully rode a slab of unfathomable power at Teahupo?o.
Derived terms
* slab hut * slab on gradeVerb
(slabb)Etymology 2
Compare Gaelic & Irish (slaib), mud, mire left on a river strand, and English .Adjective
(en adjective)- Make the gruel thick and slab .
Etymology 3
Acronym of Slow]], Loud And [[banging, Bangin'.Noun
(en noun)- Slim thug - wood grain wheel - You ain't riding slab if them ain't swangas on ya ride.
- Pull me over, try to check my slab
- I'mma swang, I'mma swing my slab lean to the left
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- All three of them recognized who the Lexus'(sic) belonged to so he parked his slab and they cocked their guns.
Usage notes
This term been popularized through the southern rap genre of hip-hop, most notably by rappers such as Paul Wall, Chamillionaire, Lil' Keke, and others.Anagrams
* * ----scabbed
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Verb
(head)scab
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Noun
(en noun)- Scab was the terror of the sheep farmer, and the peril of his calling.
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Synonyms
* (strikebreaker) blackleg, knobstick, scalieVerb
page 631,
- Tho?e Pu?tules aro?e, maturated, and ?cabbed off, intirely like the true Pox.
page 233,
- Trev walked over and leaned down, dropping a tender kiss on her forehead where the skin was raw and scabbing from the cut.
page 121,
- The bark that wasn?t already scabbed off was peppered with beetle holes.
page 265,
- The beds shall be scabbed' off to give a solid bearing, no pinning shall be admitted between the backing and the face stones and there shall be a good square joint not exceeding one inch in width, and the face stone shall be ' scabbed off to allow this.
- I scabbed some money off a friend.
page 143,
- Finding a spot in a covered seating area that was more bus shelter than tourist-friendly, I unravelled a mother of a joint I?d scabbed off the garçon.
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- I?d already used up me mobile credit. I was using a normal phone card, what I got from Hamid, what got it from a church lady what helped the refugees. I didn?t like scabbing from the asylums, but they did get a lotta phone cards.
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- I?ve told Fred we can see a movie this weekend, but that just seems like a money-wasting activity. And I can?t keep scabbing off my best friend.